The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-10-21
DAKOTA NEWS ITEMS.

Col. G. B. Penrose, chief commits
sary Of the department Of Dakota.
Just ordered to Fort I.eavanworth.
Kan, as chief commissary OF the de-
partment of the Missouri, has served
in the department. OF Dakota since
October 1882.
Dakota patents: G. N. Asselstine,
Hamilton, anvil for forming plow-
shares; also anvil for forming land
sides for plows; j.. III. Aslem, Howell,
plate glass polisher ~(re-issue); G.
Laube, Huron, hay burner.
The Dakota delegation, nearly two
hundred strong, were among the ear
lest callers on the President.
At st. Paul, the delegation was
headed by Gov. Church and Secretary
Mccormack.
The fine country residence OF Theos
David, of the territorial board of ag-
riculture, six miles north of Mitchell.
burned to the ground. All the cloth
ing, furniture and everything else of
value in the house was destroyed.
Total loss $4,000.
At Sioux Falls, a youngman named
Melvin Davis, fell from the roof of the
Cascade grain elevator, a distance OF
fifty feet, and vas killed.
The Aberdeen Evening Republican
has began publication. 1t is a Demo-
cratic daily.
Three heavily laden passenger trains
came into Mitchell bearing excursion
lists from the East to look over Da-
kota.
At Landau, Francis e. Bowman dis.
trict attorney of Morton county, died
after a lingering illness, aged % years.
He was an able lawyer, an odd fellow,
and had been noble grand.
l. 7. Mcintyre OF Gu and Junction,
Iowa, chief engineer of the proposed
railroad from Sioux City to Marshall.
Mimi, died at Canton, of typhoid
fever.
There was held at Fargo the Cass
county local option convention with
representatives from all parts OF the
county. About sixty persons we're
present. Plans were adopted by which
it is hoped to carry prohibition this
fall. The appointment OF local COM
mittees was left to the chairman of
the executive committee, Rev. r. A..
Beard.
The administration has finally in
terested itself in the opening OF the
Sioux reservation. Col. Bannister,
special agent OF the Indian depart
ment, arrived at Pierre, to look into
the urgency of opening the reserve,
and on his report hinges the result.
He seems to think that the s ioux res
ervation must be cut down.
During the Ashton fair four gentle
manly strangers registered at the Ack-
ley house. Their businesses was in the
fancy line-such as balloons, ect., sold
On the fair grounds. In q few days
they skipped, with a large hotel bill
unpaid. The following day Landlord
Hollenbeck received q letter from the
Commercial Hotel OF Faulkton, in
curing for o~vercoats which had been
loaned to these gentlemen and which
we're to be left at the Ackley house.
Complaints Of a failure to receive
cars for wheat shipments by private
buyers and shippers we're heard by
the railroad commissioners at Car.
rington and Sykeston. anGat Coopers-
town. Mr.. Griggs, of the commission
says the former cases have good
grounds, and that in every instance
the commission will do all possible to
straighten matters out.
At Sioux Falls. a genuine bare
knuckle sluggish scrap. Queensbury
rules, took place in the basement Of
the Daily Press Office between @. II.
Craig and w. Il. Belrood, printers en-.
ployed on tbs Press. The fight was
five rounds, but Belrood, who is much
the smaller man, was knocked out in
the third round.
In the case OF James A. Pringle, in
volving the southwest quarter section
81, township 155, range SO, Devils
Lake district, the secretary of int.
rior holds that a mortgage of land
must be notified of q decision holding
an entry for cancellation and allowed
a hearing to prove the good faith oil
the m~ortgagor in complying with the
law II the former asks for it.
The failure of A. Pollock & Co., at
Omaha carried down their branch
house at Huron.